Clinical companion to "Physiological meteria medica;"

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Preface

In preparing this work, it has been the object of the author to present the busy practitioner with a condensed statement of the best means known at this day for the cure of medical, surgical, obstetrical, gynaecological, ophthalmic, and otic diseases.

A glance at the remeaies, and the classification of them under each disease, will convince the reader that the author has been guided not by tradition but by the experience of the most prominent practical physicians of the age — which teaches that each drug, when administered in health, affects prominently a certain organ, and proves therefore specific in disease of the same.

The "adjuvants" added to the remedies will of course sub" ject the author to criticism from some practitioners, but he comforts himself with the belief that they will prove acceptable to the large majority.

The principal works consulted in the preparation of this work are the following: Baehr's Science of Therapeutics; . Marcy and Hunt's Practice; Raue's Therapeutics; Lilienthal's Therapeutics; Jousset's Clinical Medicine; Ruddock's Medical Text Book; Jahr's Forty Years' Practice. Hull's Jahr's Repertory; Johnson's Therapeutic Key; Tanner's Index of Diseases; Ziemsen's Cyclopaedia of the Practice of Medicine; Bell's Therapeutics of Diarrhoea; Potter's Comparative Therapeutics; Goullon's Scrofulous Affections; Reynold's System of Medicine: Hale's Diseases of the Heart;

6 PRKFACE.

Hart's Diseases of the Nervous System; Tyson on the Urine; Edmunds' Diseases of Infants and Children; Duncan's Diseases of Children; Mejiioffer's Chronic Diseases of the Respiratory Organs; Hammond's Diseases of the Nervous System; Ludlam' s Diseases of Women; Emmet's Gynaecology; Simpson's Diseases of Women; Hodge's Diseases of Women; Thomas' Diseases of Women; Hale on Sterility; Tait on Diseases of Women; Ostrom on the Breast; Helmuth's System of Surgery; Franklin's Minor Surgery; Keetley's Index of Surgery; Erichsen's 'Surgery; Ashhurt's International Encyclopcedia of Surgery; Hill's Surgery; Guernsey's Obstetrics; Leavitt's Obstetrics; Lilienthal's Diseases of the Skin; Kippax' Diseases of the Skin; Duhring's Diseases of the Skin; Winslow on the Human Ear; Allen and Norton's Ophthalmic Therapeutics; Burt's Physiological Materia Medica; The Clinical Indexes of Ringer. Wood, Hempel, Phillips, Stille, Bartholow, Farquharson, Hale and Hughes; A large number of MedicalJournals— Homoeopathic, Eclectic and Allopathic— have also been drawn upon for information. The * indicates that the drug is not mentioned in the "Physiological Materia Medica;" it has, unfortunately, through the carelessness of the proof reader, been omitted in many places of the latter part of the work.

The author wishes to acknowledge his indebtedness to P. Blakiston, Son & Co. and to Prof. J. Tyson, for the use of the excellent plates that illustrate the article on Urinalysis; and also to H. C. Yetterling, M. D., for assistance in the preparation of t-he manuscript for the press.

Although intended to be a companion to the author's "Physiological Materia Medica," it is plain this work can be used with any other.

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ABBREVIATIONS.

ABBREVIATION?.

LATIX WORD.

ENGLISH WORD, a a.

Ana.

Of each.

Ad sat ura ml.

Ad saturamluni

Until saturated.

Ad lib.

Ad libitum.

At pleasure.

Aq. tepid.

Aqua tepida.

Warm water.

Aq. ferv.

Aqua fervens.

Hot water.

Aq. dist.

Aqua distillate.

Distilled water.

Aq. font.

Aqua fontana.

Spring water.

Bis die.

Bis in die.

Twice daily.

C.

Congius.

A gallon.

Coeh.

Cochlear.

A spoonful.

Coch. mag.

Cochlear magnum.

A tablespoon/id.

Coeh. parr.

Cochlear parvum.

A teaspoon fid.

Chart.

Chamila.

A small paper.

Colent.

Colenter.

Let them be strained.

Cerat.

Ceratum.

A cerate.

Collyr.

Collyrium.

An eye-water.

Contus.

Contusus.

Bruised or broken

Comp.

Compositus.

Compound.

Decoct.

Decoctum.

A decoction.

Dil.

Dilutus.

Dilute.

Emp.

Emplastrum.

A piaster.

Esp.

Especially.

Ext.

Externally.

Extr.

Extractmn.

An extract.

Fl.

Fluidus.

Fluid.

Ft.

Fiat.

Let be made.

Foi

Folium, rel folia.

A leaf, or leaves.

Gr.

Granum, grana.

A grain, grains.

Gtt.

Guna. guttae.

A drop, drops.

Garg.

Gargarysma.

A gargle.

Haust.

Haustus.

A draught.

Inf.

Infusum.

An infusion.

Int.

Internally .

ABBREVIATIONS.

ABBREVIATIONS

LATIN WORD.

ENGLISH WORD.

Lb.

Libra.

A pound.

Liq.

Liquor.

A solution.

M.

Misce.

Mix.

Mass.

Massa.

A mass.

Mist.

Mistura.

A mixture.

Mucil.

Mucil ago.

A mucilage.

No.

Numero.

In number.

O.

Octarius.

A pint.

Pil.

Pilula.

A pill, or pills.

Par. seq.

Partes sequales.

Equal parts, {stances.

P.r. n.

Pro re nata.

According to circum-

Proph.

Prophylactic.

Pulv.

Pulveris.

A powder.

Q. S.

Quantum sufficit.

As much as is necessary

Recipe.

Take.

Had.

Radix.

A root.

S., Sig.

Sign a.

Write.

Ss.

Semis.

A half.

Solv.

Solve.

Dissolve.

Sol.

Solutio.

A solution.

Spt.

Spiritus.

A spirit.

Suppos.

Suppositoria.

A suppository.

Syr.

Syrupus.

A syrup.

Tinct.,

Tinctura.

A tincture.

Trit.

Trituratus.

A trituration.

Troch.

Trochiscus.

A lozenge.

Ter die.

Ter in dies.

Thrice daily.

Ung.

Unguentum.

An ointment.

Vin.

Vinum.

A trine.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

APOTHECARIES' OR TROT WEIGHT.

Pound. Ounces. Drachms. Scruples. Grains.

1 = 12 = 96 = 288 = 5760

1 = 8 = 24 = 480

1 = 3 = 60

1 = 20

APOTHECARIES' OR WINE MEASURE.

Gallon. Pints. Fl. ounces. Fl.drms. Minims.

1 = 8 = 128 = 1024 = 61440

1 = 16 = 128 = 7680

. 1 . — 8 = 480

1 = 60

WEIGHTS AND MEA8URES. y

(FARQUHAKSON.) METRIC WEIGHTS. APPROXIMATE EQUIVALENTS.

lGram, 1 =gr. 15.432— 1 f§ Glycerin=37

MEASURES OP LENGTH.

One Myriametre = 10,000 Metres.

One Kilometre = 1,000 Metres.

One Hectometre = 100 Metres.

One Decametre == 10 Metres.

One METRE = the ten-millionth part of a quarter of the

meridian of the earth.

One Decimetre = the tenth part of one Metre, or 0.1 Metre. One Centimetre = the hundredth part of one Metre, or 8.01

Metre.

One Millimetre = the thousandth part of one Metre, or

0.001 Metre. (A metre is equal to 39.37 inches; a centimetre to ^ of an inch; and a millimetre to ^ of an inch.)

One Myriagramme = 10,000 Grammes.

One Kilogramme = 1,000 Grammes.

One Hectogramme = 100 Grammes.

One Decagramme = 10 Grammes.

One GRAMME = the weight of a cubic centimetre of water at 4° C.

One Decigramme = the tenth part of one Gramme, or 0.1 Gramme.

One Centigramme = the hundredth part of one Gramme, or 0.01 Gramme.

One Milligramme = the thousandth part of one Gramme, or 0.001 Gramme.

MEASURES OF CAPACITY.

One Myrialitre = 10 cubic Metres, or the measure of 10

Milliers of Water.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

(FARQUIIARSON.)

One Kilolitre = 1 cubic Metre, or the measure of 1 Millier

of Water.

One Hectolitre = 100 cubic Decimetres, or the measure of 1

Quintal of Water.

One Decalitre = 10 cubic Decimetres, or the measure of 1

Myriagramme of Water.

One LITRE = 1 cubic Decimetre, or the measure of 1

Kilogramme of Water.

One Decilitre = 100 cubic Centimetres, or the measure of 1

Hectogramme of Water.

One Centilitre = 10 cubic Centimetres, or the measure of 1

Decigramme of Water.

One Millilitre = 1 cubic Centimetre, or the measure of 1

Gramme of Water.

RELATION OF WEIGHTS OF THE U. S. PHARMACOPOEIA TO METRICAL WEIGHTS.

Fraction of a grain in grammes.

Grains in metrical equivalent weights.

Drachms, pounds, ir metrical ounces, and equivalent weights.

Grain

Grammes.

Grains.

Grammes.

Drachms.

Grammes.

=

=

3;887

=

=

7 775

=*

11,66

=

=

=

=

_1 3 6

=

=

23 32

=

=

2>5

=

=

Ounces

=

=

31)103 h

=

=

62 206

JL 1 6

=

=

93 309'

JL

1 5

=

=

12441 tV

=

=

155 51

JL.

=

=

18661

1 8

=

=

1 g

=

=

248 182

1 5

=

=

27992

1 4

=

=

31103

JL 3

=

=

342 1 13

JL

=

=

Pounds.

373 24

1119172

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.